| Niklaus E. Wirth | |
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| Born | February 15, 1934 Winterthur, Switzerland |
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| Citizenship |  Switzerland |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | ETH Zurich, Stanford University, University of Zurich Xerox PARC |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich, Université Laval, University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Algol W, Euler, Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, Pascal |
| Notable awards | Turing Award |
Niklaus Emil Wirth (b. Events 590 - Khosrau II is crowned as king of Persia 1637 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Winterthur (pronounced Ger /vɪntərtur/ Eng /tʊər/ is a city in the canton of Zurich in northern Switzerland. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in The University of Zurich ( German: Universität Zürich) located in the city of Zurich, is the largest University in Switzerland PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Inc formerly Xerox PARC, is a Research and development company in Palo Alto California that began as a division of Alma mater is Latin for "nourishing mother" It was used in Ancient Rome as a title for the mother Goddess, and in Medieval The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley Algol-W is a Programming language. It was Niklaus Wirth 's proposal for a successor to ALGOL 60 in the ALGOL 68 committee Euler is a Programming language created by Niklaus Wirth and Helmut Weber conceived as an extension and generalization of ALGOL 60. The Modula Programming language is a descendent of the Pascal programming language. Modula-2 is a computer Programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth at ETH, around 1978 as a successor to his intermediate language Modula Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural Programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small The A M Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. Events 590 - Khosrau II is crowned as king of Persia 1637 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their A programming language is an Artificial language that can be used to write programs which control the behavior of a machine particularly a Computer. Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural Programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small Software engineering is the application of a systematic disciplined quantifiable approach to the development operation and maintenance of Software. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. The A M Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing
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Biography
Wirth was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1934. Winterthur (pronounced Ger /vɪntərtur/ Eng /tʊər/ is a city in the canton of Zurich in northern Switzerland. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 1959 he earned a degree in Electronics Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH). Electronic engineering is a discipline dealing with the behavior and effects of Electrons (as in electron tubes and transistors and with electronic devices systems or equipment Zürich (, Zürich German: Züri, Zurich, Zurigo; in English generally Zurich) is the largest city in Switzerland and capital of the In 1960 he earned an M. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sc. from Université Laval, Canada. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Then in 1963 he was awarded a Ph.D.in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by the computer designer pioneer Harry Huskey. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. EECS (sometimes ˈiːks "eeks" is an abbreviation for Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley Harry Douglas Huskey (born January 19, 1916) is an American computer designer pioneer
From 1963 to 1967 he served as assistant professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and again at the University of Zurich. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in The University of Zurich ( German: Universität Zürich) located in the city of Zurich, is the largest University in Switzerland Then in 1968 he became Professor of Informatics at ETH Zurich, taking a two year sabbatical at Xerox PARC in California. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Informatics is the science of Information, the practice of Information processing, and the engineering of Information systems. Zürich (, Zürich German: Züri, Zurich, Zurigo; in English generally Zurich) is the largest city in Switzerland and capital of the PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Inc formerly Xerox PARC, is a Research and development company in Palo Alto California that began as a division of California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Wirth retired in 1999. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar)
Works
Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages Euler, Algol W, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2 and Oberon. A programming language is an Artificial language that can be used to write programs which control the behavior of a machine particularly a Computer. Euler is a Programming language created by Niklaus Wirth and Helmut Weber conceived as an extension and generalization of ALGOL 60. Algol-W is a Programming language. It was Niklaus Wirth 's proposal for a successor to ALGOL 60 in the ALGOL 68 committee Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural Programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small The Modula Programming language is a descendent of the Pascal programming language. Modula-2 is a computer Programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth at ETH, around 1978 as a successor to his intermediate language Modula He was also a major part of the design and implementation team for the Lilith and Oberon operating systems, and for the Lola digital hardware design and simulation system. Lilith is the name of custom built Workstation using the AMD 2901 bit-slice processor by the group of Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zürich Oberon is an Operating system, originally developed as part of the NS32032 -based Ceres workstation project it is written entirely in the Oberon Lola is designed to be a simple Hardware description language for describing Synchronous, Digital circuits Niklaus Wirth developed the language He received the ACM Turing Award for the development of these languages and in 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the ACM. The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational Computing society The A M Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing
His article Program Development by Stepwise Refinement, about the teaching of programming, is considered to be a classic text in software engineering. Software engineering is the application of a systematic disciplined quantifiable approach to the development operation and maintenance of Software. In 1975 he wrote the book Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, which gained wide recognition and is still useful today. Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs is a book written by Niklaus Wirth covering some of the fundamental topics of Computer programming.
He designed the simple programming language PL/0 to illustrate compiler design. There are at least two programming languages known as PL/0. One is a subset of IBM's general purpose Programming language PL/I. It has formed the basis for many university compiler design classes.
In 1995, he popularized the adage now known as Wirth's law: "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster," although in his 1995 paper A Plea for Lean Software he attributes it to Martin Reiser. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Wirth's law in Computing was made popular by Niklaus Wirth in 1995 Hardware is a general term that refers to the physical artifacts of a Technology. [1]
Quotes
"Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth. ' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value. In Computer science, an evaluation strategy is a set of (usually deterministic rules for determining the evaluation of expressions in a Programming language In Computer science, an evaluation strategy is a set of (usually deterministic rules for determining the evaluation of expressions in a Programming language " [2]
"In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity. "
—Niklaus Wirth, A Few Words with Niklaus Wirth. Dr Carlo Pescio (June 1997)
"Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer. "
—Niklaus Wirth, A Digital Contrarian Retires. Beat Gerber (June 1999)
See also
References
- ^ Niklaus Wirth (February 1995). In Computer science, Extended Backus–Naur Form (EBNF is a Metasyntax notation used to express Context-free grammars that is a formal way to describe Wirth syntax notation ( WSN) is a Metasyntax, that is a formal way to describe Formal languages Originally proposed by Niklaus Wirth in 1977 In Computing, bucky bit in a binary representation of a character is a Bit that is set by pressing on a Computer keyboard additional Modifier key "A Plea for Lean Software". Computer 28 (2): pp. Computer is an IEEE Computer Society practitioner-oriented magazine issued to all members of the society 64-68.
- ^ David Gries (June 2002). "Problems in Computer Science Education". ITiCSE.
External links
- Biography at ETH Zürich.
- Personal home page at ETH Zürich.
- Program Development by Stepwise Refinement, Communications of the ACM, 14(4):221–227, April 1971. Communications of the ACM ( CACM) is the flagship monthly Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar.
- Pascal and its Successors paper by Niklaus Wirth – also includes short biography.
- A Few Words with Niklaus Wirth
- The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity, by László Böszörményi, Jürg Gutknecht, Gustav Pomberger (editors). dpunkt. verlag / Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is a San Francisco based book publisher specialized in computer science and engineering 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ISBN 3-932588-85-1 / ISBN 1-55860-723-4.
- The book about the Oberon language and Operating System is now available as a PDF file. Project Oberon - The Design of an Operating System and Compiler The PDF file has an additional appendix Ten Years After: From Objects to Components.
- The book Compiler Construction
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| NAME | Wirth, Niklaus E. |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Computer Science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winterthur, Switzerland |
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